It's not a surprising announcement but it is a welcome one all the same. TVLine reports that Candice King will, in fact, appear in The Originals season 5 as her Vampire Diaries character, Caroline Forbes.

The Originals season 4 opened with a pretty significant time jump. Klaus was imprisoned for nearly half a decade, Hope grew from a young toddler to a 7-year-old girl and the Mikaelsons were scattered from New Orleans.